Patching up V2.0.0 | Patreon Weekly #199

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to elaborate on some of the changes coming shortly in v2.0.1.

This weekly also has an audio Q&A in it! Go and give it a listen if you’d like. You can find audio timestamps at the end of this weekly.

V2.0.1 Changes

V2.0.1 has been bouncing around in beta for a couple of days now, and after a couple more fixes I plan to put it live very soon. v2.0 has been one of the most overall stable update launches in a while, so the v2.0.1 patch is less focused on bugfixes than normal. While there are some fixes, they lean more towards some existing issues in the game that were recently reported, than issues introduced by v2.0 specifically.

In terms of content, there are two notable UI improvements and some balance changes. The UI improvements are aimed at dealing with the increasingly huge amount of bugfix text that has started appearing in the changelogs, and to make weapon swapping a bit smoother.

In terms of balance though, there is another round of quite significant Duelist ability buffs. One thing that’s clear at this point is that I underestimated how much of a drawback it was to have her abilities tied to melee weapons, and how significant some of the limitations on those abilities are. It’s very hard to judge her overall power level right now, as a lot of people are still trying her out. Going purely based on winrate she is about 1/4 as strong as the other classes, but this is obviously completely wrong or I would be hearing similar feedback from players VERY loudly.

Because It’s hard to say how weak she actually is, I am focusing most of these early adjustments on buffing the numbers of her weaker performing weapon abilities, using the cleave moves as a benchmark. That should help some of the feelings of inconsistency some players have mentioned her having, and put her in an overall better position to be changed in v2.1, a little longer after the dust settles.

Audio Timestamp

• 0:10 "Suggestion : add a little "+" on a cell which contains 2 or more different items because sometimes we don't see and lose some items hidden under others." - Destruire
• 1:51 "Can you do your best impression of the bosses? honestly i just wanna hear you say "glurp glurp" like the goo but the others would be fun to hear too :D" - radiantchaos
• 4:46 "If you were to ever make a sequel (or prequel) to SPD, what are some of the ideas that you would be interested in perusing? Would you want to keep the same base mechanics (turn based rougelike) or would you be interested in switching those up?" - Matttt
• 6:32 "what made the sewer crabs so big? and how are they capable of destroying the hero in a one-on-one fight?" - radiantchaos
• 7:30 "How does the blood stay in the chalice? " - Joshuackiwi
• 8:43 "Why are most scrolls waterproof and not fireproof? " - Joshuackiwi
• 10:10 "Why don't enemies attack the shopkeeper?" - Joshuackiwi
• 11:08 "how was your day?" - Zrp200
• 11:58 "Can you give us more exact numbers on all the hero’s win rates? Where do most people lose?" - Veek
• 15:16 "What's the number one cause of death?" - Cake
• 16:34 "how does the projecting enchantment work lore-wise?" - Radiantchaos
• 17:22 "Are you happy with the talent Lightweight Charge? During testing you said you may want to change or replace it, I’m just curious what your final stance is on the talent." - Veek
• 19:20 "What are your thoughts regarding ChatGPT?" – Zrp200
• 23:17 "do you have any plans to bring the t2 weapon count up to the others" - Depresbian